BBC Seeks Funding Boost For New Digital Services

This will not go down too well with the commercial and political spectrum in UK: The BBC, Britain’s publicly funded broadcaster,wants more than 1.6 billion pounds ($2.8 billion) in increased funding to pay for a slew of new online services and the switchover to digital TV. The license fee would be increased annually by 2.3 percentage points above the rate of inflation for the seven-year period from April 2007.

BBC plans to use the extra funds over the next 8 years to roll out “on-demand” TV, build infrastructure to support digital TV, a free satellite service and HDTV, as well as creating more original programing with fewer repeats.

It is also considering charging money for BBC online content that is accessed abroad.

MediaGuardian I: The requirements for BBC per year: Digital services –

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